#psy asks

[fefairys]

Oh, speaking of Jett, can I just say one of my favorite parts of the comic so far is Jett getting into an argument on the internet about calling Gerard Way babygirl and then going "you know what? FUCK this." and immediately spacing off to think about LawLight. The comedic timing on that is so fucking good

AHAHEHAHEHE YEEESSS MY FAVORITE JETT PANEL <333 THANK YOU

so polite with it

[seeesame]

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DID YOU DID NOT FINISH ANYTHING

lots of things probably!

...well, i am horrifically stubborn, so maybe not. there were things that i wanted to stop reading, so much, i was so bored, it was hell, but i probably finished anyway.

[seeesame]

@dragonofthedepths

i can play more than two musical instruments (voice included) ❌no, psy, a handful of chords on the ukulele does not count. i don’t even count the voice. no one is impressed with my warbling. i wanna play electric guitar so badddd so bad pls… i wanna shred… get some more calluses…

i can identify at least one native tree where i live ✅one? one? yeahi know what a pine tree looks like. ONE TREE? i can do at least ten come on

i listen to at least one physical form of music (cds, vinyl, tapes etc) ❌psy should burn some cds but alas, no

i have read a book translated from another language ✅yeah but i’m usually disappointed in the lack of Style in the translation

the walls where i live are a colour other than white ✅they are so white. well, light grey, but still colorless

i have gone to visit a place where a book/film/media is set b/c of the media ❌never in my life

i own something handmade passed down in my family ✅my aunty gave me some gloves :> my sister (the Spinner Of Wool) made me some slippies also

my favourite film is from the 20th century ❌i don’t have A favorite movie. i don’t even do the thing i do with anime/manga/books where i categorize/review. i haven’t even seen the godfather

i have been part of a shakespeare play ❌no

my middle name is after a family/friend ✅if i were to rank these responses based on how unspecific they are, this would be right after the tree thing

amacha, you may well be BACK FROM italy by this time. BUT I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING THE BEST TIME!!! I LOVE YOU<3

please reblog for sample size!! and tell me specifics in the tags if you like, people's responses are fascinating

[paper-mario-wiki]

have you ever submitted any mashups to siivagunner?

yeah but it was a really long time ago and it got rejected and even though ive gotten way better i still havent submitted again because i was bitter and saw them as elitists from then on out (like a rational person).

specifically, i submitted this

[i-heart-hxh]

is Killua truly jealous of Palm?

Yes, I absolutely think he is!

It's never explicitly stated, but the subtext is so in your face in a few different ways that it's essentially not even subtext any more.

Togashi could have chosen so many different ways to portray the way Killua feels about the Gon/Palm date subplot, but making it clear over and over again how bothered Killua is by the whole situation absolutely reads as jealousy, especially within the larger context of the arc. Look at these especially!

Togashi puts so much emphasis on Killua's expressions and distress throughout the whole subplot. Of course it's partly intended to be comedic, but this situation with Gon and Palm does have serious emotional weight for Killua as well--pulling out the needle, his breakdown in front of Palm, what she ends up saying to him after that, etc. I do think the exaggerated and extreme ways Togashi expresses Killua's feelings are intended to make the audience go, "Oh, he's really jealous, isn't he?"

People can argue Killua's reactions are just because of who Gon is on a date with (someone unhinged/violent and much older than him), or that it's just "concern" about Gon because of his nen situation, and those are both definitely aspects of what's going on here--but to reduce it down to only that ignores those deeper emotional impacts it has on Killua. I think the protectiveness aspect is something Killua uses to veil some of the other things he's feeling about it even though of course he is legitimately protective of Gon in this situation (and he has good reasons to be so). I also think Togashi himself uses the ambiguity to his advantage here, because if he put in romantic jealousy that was any clearer, would Jump allow it?

The way Killua goes immediately from the topic of going on dates/being freaked out about the prospect of Gon having been on dates before to feeling heartbroken because he wants to be with Gon forever the next panel is telling, in my opinion... (The English translation is a little vague, seems like it was intentionally toned down. In the original Japanese version he says he wanted to be with Gon forever.)

Here's a post where @tjlnn22 and I discuss this weightlifting scene in more detail.

I firmly believe that a big part of Palm's role as a character is to get the audience to question the nature of Killua's feelings for Gon. Without considering this context, the way her character is set up from the beginning and what role she's intended to play in Chimera Ant Arc is confusing. But when if you look at her character as having been built for that role, suddenly her entire character and subplot makes sense. Here's an older post where OP talks about some of the framing of Palm's character, and then I talk in more depth about why Palm is written the way she is.

It especially makes sense when you consider that the date with Palm is one of the factors that destabilizes Killua's faith in his relationship with Gon, leading to him wondering if they're acting together as friends or just as teammates. Here's an awesome post @tjlnn22 put together and submitted to me on this topic, with specific details supporting this argument. I think this is an important part of the arc that gets overlooked, and I love how clearly it's laid out in the linked post.

Killua also acts dismissive of Gon worrying about Palm to the point where other characters comment on his behavior, which to me seems like another sign of jealousy and bitterness on Killua's part. Then when he encounters Palm again after her transformation, this is how he behaves towards her:

Hands on his hips, full sass mode here. Again with the jealousy...

...And then shortly after this he proceeds to have a total emotional breakdown when he admits to himself that he thinks maybe Gon cares more about Palm than him, and that Palm might be the only one who can help Gon, rather than Killua. Of course there are more factors than this behind his breakdown, including him getting pushed away by Gon prior, but this is DIRECTLY the thought that leads him to start crying and then sobbing on the ground.

The Palm subplot is one of the biggest things in the series that makes me confident that the romantic subtext around Killua's feelings is completely and utterly intentional. The way the whole subplot is constructed, the decisions Togashi makes around Palm and how she's presented as a character, the way Killua's reactions and emotions are emphasized with regards to it, and the significance of this subplot in the greater arc of Killua's character all show a great deal of thought and care, and it's hard to come to any other conclusion when looking at it carefully.

Thank you for asking!

[zhongrin]

Rin, i believe this is for you :D

??????? wh. what is????

[fefairys]

i want to point out some things u might have missed if u didnt pick up on this because um i want an excuse to post screenshots from the comic and point at jett because i like him.

first of all this panel from chapter 2. one of the headmates wanting to pick up a rock and the other refusing lmao. juice's idea, i think it is so funny and real. and then chapter 5 is full of headmate conversations, especially when things get stressful.

notice the slightly different font color. those are two different guys

and one of them noticed something that the other didn't. also the different phantom parts changing depending on who's more in control of the body. we r having a lot of fun with this >:3

wait i might need to re-read a lil but can psy tell that jett ash blood shadow is/is part of a system? if psy met other systems could they maybe tell because of the difference in their “voice” ?

short answer: yes Psy can tell the difference in system member's voices and can tell that JABS is a system, and they have definitely come across other people with multiple voices in their head over the course of their life. but they don't comment on it at all in the narration, really.

long answer because i love talking:

in universe explanation: Psy simply doesn't care, and doesn't find it a necessary thing to comment on. thats just the way Jett is. it's interesting, but frankly it's something Jett keeps a secret from most of the people in its life so Psy would feel weird about going into it in the narration any more than absolutely necessary (like explaining its phantom limbs)

the real explanation: hearing multiple voices in your head doesn't definitively necessarily mean you're a system and we wanted to keep it kind of ambiguous to let the readers interpret that however they wanted. like, admittedly, yes. JABS is a system, heavily based on my (Cat's) system and that's technically the intention when writing him. but i wouldn't be offended (and would actually find it really cool and interesting) if other people interpreted it differently to, say, see it as him having THEIR mental illness which makes them hear multiple different voices in their head like that and/or experience delusions and whatnot.

some behind the scenes talk below the cut because you've activated my trap card of letting me talk about our comic

jett being a system was actually a pretty late decision in the writing process! as we draw the chapters i am also rewriting a lot of jett's thoughts to reflect being a system! changing some of the "i"s to "we"s and such, adding more distinct voices and conversations within its thoughts... stuff like that!

originally, it was more in line with kaido from saiki k where he sort of just writes fantasy stories and pretends theyre real? and like, kind of has delusions about them? but i have also seen interpretations of kaido being a system which i think rules. so basically, we're doing that but on purpose. a lot of Psy is us taking our fun headcanons from saiki k and doing them on purpose haha! like all the queerness for example, as well as Jett's physical disabilities

also, i at one point had the idea in my head of Psy having a habit of armchair diagnosing people all the time based on their thoughts, but quickly discarded that. it would have been in a 100% non judgemental way, sort of just "sounds like he has DID or something" and stuff. like. just cause they think it's interesting and kinda fun to psychoanalyze people since they can literally hear all their thoughts lol. i think that idea had the potential to be funny, but ultimately i was worried about it getting.... messy, and a bit iffy to write ethically, so now i'm kind of leaning the opposite way where they actively try not to psychoanalyze. tbh they probably still do this, they just dont say it in the narration. Psy knows they have people watching them. they wanna look good.

[psychologeek]

Timkon baby:

Tim Drake loves his daughter.

Damian is a good little uncle. He lets the little girl one play with his hand or his face when he holds her and often draws it. He also sings his mother's lullabies to her.

Kon and Tim are complicated... but they both love their child [and each other].

When the Alt-Batkids arrive in the good universe, Tim was working at the bat-computer with a child and she started crying when the Alt-Batkids appeared.

Tim just looks after his daughter while she plays on the floor with her toys, Alt-Tim sits next to her and avoids looking at the little girl, but having gathered the courage, he asks another Tim if he loves his daughter? Tim responds positively. Alt-Tim asks if it was painful to bring her into the world? Tim answers "yes" again - I love a misunderstanding too much, don't I?.

Damian asks Dick about Tim and baby. Angst and sadness.

Her name is Abigail Robin. The joy of her father and the arrival of spring, which symbolizes the beginning of all good things.

I do have a different name for the baby in my fic, but Abigail Robin sounds like a lovely name! I love that you had much thought aout the meanings - names are very important (LOL as can see anyone who read my fics XD )

Damian: I hate babies also Damian: *immidietly searching" baby katanas", "how to teach baby katana", and "weapons for newborn"*

I mean. Having a baby is. Painful.

thanks for your lovely contributions!!

[I don't have much time, and spend most of it on uploading Whumptober, but I see and promise to answer anything].

[bluejay-ism]

Introjectism is extremely funny, because yes, I am an introject. No, I look nothing like this. No, I don't remember any of that. Anymore confusing questions?

[volivolition]

prepping for my Bonus Days. i love tutorial agent lmao

[cocksley-and-catapult]

cocksley gangnam style

[fefairys]

ok so Conner is Kira

🤔

[seeesame]

tell us about azz <3

i tried real hard to come up with a good explanation for my years long obsession with this little pink guy, and this is what i wrote

he can be used as a coat rack. (if you are iruma)

[18shadesofmay]

btw, what are three fandoms (or like music artists? OH TOP THREE INTERESTS IS A BETTER WAY TO PUT IT) that you post about

1. studio ghibli (i love them to death)

2. dhh (although i listen to music all over the place, honestly)

3. (and this may spark off some other tumblr-related interaction) coldplay. absolute fav. i’ve BURNED through all their albums and i’m on such a high when i listen to them. i have a recurring tag that’s #coldplay lyrics will always make me cry

[chappellrroan]

vio

I give up on jjk vio

nooo why it's not that bad trust me 😭 just maybe a tad bit depressing BUT IT'S WORTH IT FR

[fefairys]

fight fight fight

Tate = Cronus

-🎪

ur the second person to say this so far.

tate would be so offended if he knew who cronus was.